Katie & Scott & Simon & Cecily.
A week and a half ago, Katie and I got to see Spring Awakening at a theatre in San Jose for free.
Tonight, we’re going to see that new Green Day musical American Idiot at Berkeley Rep on comps as well.
What a enchanted life I lead, married to a member of the thriving theatre community, here in the bay area!
It’s not just me, right? This year, the harbingers of Christmas have popped up earlier than usual.
Before Halloween candy was on sale, I was hearing Christmas music being piped through mall speakers. Before pumpkins disappeared from the front of grocery stores, aisles were being lined with wreaths and ornaments.
I have nothing against you, Christmas, but isn’t it a bit premature? Isn’t it a bit mean to take all that thunder away from not only Thanksgiving, who’s gotten used to being an opening act for you, but also Halloween? Where’s your Christmas spirit?
My gut tells me that this has something to do with the recession, that retailers are hoping to somehow get people to think that a end-of-year holiday shop-a-thon should actually start three quarters of the way through the year. I just hope it doesn’t backfire, where people get so tired of being reminded about Christmas for three months that they don’t buy anything in late December.
That would mean our retail market would fall apart and I wouldn’t get any presents.
Katie does!
3 of them.
Where’s the third one? That’s one secret I’ll never tell.
XOXO,
Pajama Boy
About a week ago, I got an invite to try out Google Wave. Since then, I’ve messed around with it a bit.
It purports to be a replacement for email (among other things), but the one thing that really hinders the service from being anything other than a novelty at this point is the same thing that would bring it crashing down: ubiquity.
Google Wave invites aren’t easy to come by and the average person on the street, who might be well aware of Gmail, has probably not yet heard of Google Wave. So, the hodgepodge of friends I have that are using the service aren’t using it regularly; why check an “email” account on a service used by less than 10% of your contacts and where you never get messages?
Sure, I can see its potential, but it’ll be hard to get a real bearing on the usefulness and practicality of Wave until a large amount of people I know are using on a daily basis.
For now, it’s just a technology without an active userbase, which makes it interesting and fun, but not terribly useful.
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